Theysay that it will be another season like last year.... active... and even now, in the Pacific the first storm of the season, Adrian, churns it's way towards the coast... Theysay that rainfall may top 20" in the mountains of El Salvador and Guatemala...

I think that was Stripey that asked you the question, ECS, but no matter...if it rains 40 days and 40 nights, I'll just stay on top of my hill, keep the NOAA weather radio on, and have my raft, (my ark), rain gear, and life vest ready...just in case!

Catherine

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman

My husband has relatives in LA, and they're more afraid of the fires than they are of mudslides, although they were involved in one muddy when they lived in Malibu. Came right down beside their house, they said. That's when they moved to Blue Jay...do you know the place, Stripey?

We had bad storms Thursday night. I LOVE a good thunderstorm, and so does my husband. The NOAA awakened us, so we were able to go out onto the back deck and watch the lightening for awhile, before the wind and rain drove us back inside.

Friday morning, I didn't have to pull the water hose all over the yard, watering my flowerbeds and new plantings, which I'd been doing all week.

Catherine

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman

I've only been in one... Hazel, back in '54... it was windy and rainy... really really windy and really really rainy, other than that, I've lived on the left coast all of my life so I can't tell you anymore than that...

Fire storms aren't nearly the same, though they are as destructive to those directly affected... How about the mudslides? Experience any of them? OR... the quaking earth?

Been in Hurricane Opal, one tornado, and one huge blizzard. OH yes...a couple of earthquakes have rumbled through my area...no damage, but we knew we'd had a quake. Something like a 4 on the Richter scale.

Catherine

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman